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Digital Empowerment for Language Teaching (DELTEA)
Who is running this project? The project is being run by Dr Alison Porter at the University of Southampton in collaboration with Professor Suzanne Graham and Dr Pengchong (Anthony) Zhang...Read More >
Identifying pathways to sustainable, locally-driven approaches to heritage language storytelling in a diverse community in Reading
Who is running this project? This project is led by Holly Joseph and Naomi Flynn at the Institute of Education and Alice Mpofu-Coles in Geography & Environmental Science. What is...Read More >
Identifying and Supporting Reading Difficulties in an Accelerated Learning Programme for Out of School Children in a Sub-Saharan Country
Who is running this project? The project was run by Dr Anna Tsakalaki and Professor Emerita Rhona Stainthorp at the University of Reading. What is this project about? This project...Read More >
Improving children’s literacy skills and families’ confidence: Strategy-based family-training for young refugees from Ukraine.
Who is running this project? The project is run by Dr Anna Tsakalaki at the University of Reading. What is this project about? This project aims to improve development of...Read More >
Transferable vocabulary: exploring linguistic diversity at the interface between arts, literacy and mathematics
Who is running this project? The project was run by Dr Anna Tsakalaki at the University of Reading in collaboration with Joanne Skelton at Oxford Brookes University, a team of...Read More >
Digitally-Mediated English Medium Instruction (EMI) Communication in Higher Education Classrooms
Who is running this project? This project is led by Professor Parvaneh Tavakoli in Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics. What is this project about? This project aims to...Read More >
Ready to Read
Who is running this project? This project is led by Dr Holly Joseph and Dr Daisy Powell, Institute of Education. What is this project about? Research shows that the home...Read More >
Identifying Community Priorities for Dyslexia Research
Who is running this project? This project is led by Dr Cathy Manning, School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, and Dr Holly Joseph, Institute of Education. What is this...Read More >
Progression in Primary Languages
Who is running this project? This project is led by Dr Rowena Kasprowicz, Institute of Education, working in partnership with Dr Rachel Hawkes (CAM Academy Trust) and the Association for...Read More >
The relationship between morphological knowledge and word reading among children attending bilingual schools in Kuwait
Who is running this project? This project is being run by PhD student Lujain Almatrouk under the supervision of Dr Daisy Powell and Dr Holly Joseph, Institute of Education. What...Read More >
COVID-19, Migration and Multiculturalism
Who is running this project? The project is led by Dr. Tony Capstick in the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics. Non-governmental organisations Mosaik, the Reading Refugee Support Group and the Councli...Read More >
A Longitudinal Examination of English Language Improvement in a Higher Education Context using TOEFL ITP
Who is running this project? Professor Parvaneh Tavakoli from the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics is collaborating with Dr Nahal Khabazbashi from Bedfordshire University (UK) and Dr Emmanuell...Read More >
Teaching English Language Learners (TELLs): A US-UK collaborative evaluation of an approach to training teachers for multilingual classrooms
Who is running this project? This project is led by Dr Naomi Flynn working in collaboration with Professor Annela Teemant at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, USA. What is this project...Read More >
Vocabulary Acquisition and Assessment Across Multilingual Lebanese Children
Who is running this project? This project is led by PhD student Rama Kanj, under the supervision of Prof. Vesna Stojanovik and Prof. Ludovica Serratrice as a second reader at...Read More >
Raising EAL Learners’ Attainment
Who is running this project? This project is led by PhD student Aniqa Leena, under the supervision of Dr. Naomi Flynn, Institute of Education and Prof. Suzanne Graham, Institute of...Read More >
Adolescent reading practices: A corpus linguistics approach to defining success
Who is running this project? This project is being run by PhD student Beverley Jennings and is supervised by Dr Holly Joseph and Dr Daisy Powell, Institute of Education. What...Read More >
Similarity and Sentence Processing in Second Language Comprehension
Who is running this project? This project is led by Dr Ian Cunnings and Dr Hiroki Fujita in the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences. It is funded by a...Read More >
The Young Interpreter Scheme
Who is running this project? This project is led by PhD student Debra Page, under the supervision of Professor Ludovica Serratrice in the School for Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences...Read More >
Early Communication in Young Children
Who is running this project? This project is led by PhD student Tamara Schmidt, who is supervised by Professor Ludovica Serratrice and Professor Dr. Stephan Sallat (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg,...Read More >
Deaf Children with English as an Additional Language (EAL)
Who is running this project? This project is led by PhD student Emily Wright, under the supervision of Professor Ludovica Serratrice and Professor Vesna Stojanovik in the School for Psychology...Read More >
Language in Multilingual Families during the COVID-19 pandemic
Who is running this project? This study is led by researchers at the Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (Ludovica Serratrice) and Bilingualism Matters@Reading (Naomi Flynn, Holly Joseph) at the University...Read More >
Bilingualism, executive functioning and creativity: an fMRI investigation
Who is running this project? This project is led by PhD student Michal Korenar, under the supervision of Dr. Christos Pliatsikas, School for Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, and Prof....Read More >
The Effects of Diglossia on Cognition
Who is running this project? This project is led by Dr Christos Pliatsikas, School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences. What is this project about? Most of studies that have...Read More >
The cognitive and neurological effects of bilingualism in healthy ageing populations
Who is running this project? This project is led by PhD student Tom Voits, under the supervision of Dr Christos Pliatsikas, School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences. What is...Read More >
Multilingualism and Identity in Cyprus
Who is running this project? The project is led by Professor Jeanine Treffers-Daller, Institute of Education. What is this project about? In this project we investigate the link between code-switching...Read More >
Teaching English Language Learners: translating US practice to UK classrooms
Who is running this project? This pilot research project is led by Dr Naomi Flynn, Institute of Education. What is this project about? This project tackles the issues common to...Read More >
Predictors of listening and reading comprehension in EAL learners
Who is running this project? This project is led by postdoctoral fellow Dr Alessandra Valentini and Professor Ludovica Serratrice, School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences. What is this project...Read More >
Linguistic Creativity in Language learning
Who is running this project? This project is led by Professor Suzanne Graham, Institute of Education. What is this project about? For non-academic audience, the Open World Research Initiative scheme,...Read More >
The Language Magician
Who is running this project? The University of Reading, in a project with eight other partners from four European countries, has built a strategic partnership across Europe that aims to:...Read More >
The effects of exposure in a second language to the structure and the connectivity of the brain
The results of this project showed that, while the structure of the brain is affected by the processing of learning and using two languages as previously thought, the degree and...Read More >
Raising learning and achievements in Indian Primary Schools
Who is running this project? This project is led by Prof Ianthi Tsimpli, University of Cambridge, Prof Theo Marinis, University of Konstanz, Jeanine Treffers-Daller, University of Reading, Suvarna Alladi (Nizams...Read More >
Communication and representation of migrants and minorities
Dr Federico Faloppa's project “Training professionals in Italy on intercultural (mis)communication and (mis)representation of migrants and minorities” draws on research on issues of cultural representation and intercultural (mis)communication, exploring the...Read More >
Language impairment in bilingual aphasia
With a focus on Bengali, Hindi and English language, we are looking at whether linguistic similarities at word and sentence level between languages have an effect on language production in...Read More >
AThEME
AThEME is a 5-year collaborative research project studying multilingualism in Europe. Researchers from 17 partner institutions across 8 European countries will: Investigate cognitive, linguistic and sociological issues in multilingual Europe;...Read More >